KATHMANDU, Mar 13: The counting of the votes of the Presidential election has begun at New Baneshwar on Tuesday afternoon.

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KATHMANDU, Feb 7:  Vote Counting has begun for the polls to elect National Assembly members held on Wednesday.

CHITWAN, Jan 6: Counting of water birds began in country's various wetlands from today. The counting aims to make a new strategy for the protection of the bird by finding out its status.

KATHMANDU, Dec 18: The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday concluded the counting of Proportional Representation (PR) votes cast in the parliamentary and provincial polls held recently. Poll results show the CPN-UML, which bagged the most seats under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system, got the highest number of votes under the PR category as well.

KATHMANDU, Dec 17: Vote counting for Proportional Representation electoral system under Federal Parliament and Provincial Assemblies concluded on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Dec 15: The Election Commission (EC) has completed counting the proportional representation (PR) votes of 65 of the total 77 districts till Thursday evening.

ITHARI, Dec 12: The votes counting has rsumed n Sunsari-3, Where Nepali congress candidate Bijaya Kumar Gachhedhar and his nearest rival from CPN-UML Bhagawati Chaudhary are vying for the House of Representatives.

GORKHA, Dec 8: The vote counting of Gorkha-2 has been halted. According to the latest report, 44 unregistered ballot papers were found in the boxes, after which the counting has halted.

Kathmandu, Dec 8: Election Commissioner Ishwari Prasad Poudel has said that vote counting was going ahead smoothly throughout the country.

KATHMANDU, Dec 7: The vote counting of the first phase of the election of House of Representatives and Provincial Assembly has started in most of the districts. The counting has started after 5 pm following the meeting of all party in the respective districts.

RUKUM, Nov 23: Birjit Budha of Athbiskot Municipality ward -1 in Rukum will be taking part in the provincial elections for the first time. Since the announcement of the election date, he has been counting days to exercise his voting right.

RUKKUM, Nov 23: Birjit Budha of Athbiskot Municipality ward -1, Shyalakhadi will be taking part in the provincial elections for the first time. Since the announcement of the election date, he has been counting days to exercise his voting right.

KATMANDU, Nov 17: The Election Commisison (EC) has said that counting of votes of parliamentary and provincial assembly elections will be conducted only after conclusion of both rounds of the elections. The first round of the elections will be held in 32 districts on November 26 and the second round will be held the the remaining districts on December 7.

DHARAN, July 5: The vote counting at Dharan Sub-metropolitan City that was halted since Monday midnight has not resumed yet.

DHARAN, July 4: Chief Election Officer, Chief District Officer and District Police Officer have arrived at Sabhagriha after the dispute cropped up at the counting center in Dharan.

Young men and women who leave in their 20s and 30s to work abroad will have to return in their 40s and 50s

KATHMANDU, July 1: As vote counting continued in the local units across provinces 1, 5 and 7 for the second day on Friday, Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML maintained a tight race.

BIRATNAGAR, June 29: The vote counting has started in Biratnagar Metropolitan City.

BIRATNAGAR, June 29: The vote counting has not started in Biratnagar Metropolitan City.

MORANG, June 29: Vote counting has been halted in Urlabari Municipality over disputes related to ballot papers.

NEPALGUNJ, June  29: The vote  counting has started in Nepalgunj in the Banke district.

KATHMANDU, June 29: Vote counting began in various local units after the successful voting in the second phase of the local level elections.

TIKAPUR, June 22: With the local elections less than a week away, the excitement among the public for the local elections has reached fever pitch in Tikapur. Locals said they are desperate to exercise their voting rights and elect local representatives of their choice.

CHITWAN, June 1: The ballot papers which were sealed four days ago following the incident of tearing up ballot papers in Bharatpur Metropolitan City (BMC)-19 have been opened on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, May 31: Following the submission of the report on the incident related to tearing up ballot papers by a probe panel, the Election Commissioners are  holding a meeting at the Office of Election Commission on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU, May 30: A high-level team of the CPN (UML) has today reached the Election Commission to draw the attention of the Election Commission to carry out investigation into Chitwan incident regarding tearing of some ballot papers of Bharatpur Metropolitan City Ward No. 19.

KATHMANDU, May 29: The Election Commission (EC) has formed a panel to investigate into vote tear incident of Bharatpur Metro City.

CHITWAN, May 29: The CPN-UML, Chitwan has demanded to resume the vote counting at earliest of the Bharatpur Municipality.

The frustratingly slow vote counting process has dented the great public enthusiasm for local election. Many of them are asking if there is a way to make this process faster during the second phase. Perhaps using electronic voting machines is an option? Neel Kantha Uprety, the Chief Election Commissioner during the second Constituent Assembly elections in 2013, offered his views on these and other election- related issues in an interview with Republica’s Mahabir Paudyal and Bhadra Sharma.

BHAKTAPUR, May 24:  The   vote counting of Changunarayan Municipality which was halted since last Friday is resuming from Wednesday 5 pm.

BHAKTAPUR, May 23: Counting of votes in Changunarayan municipality of Bhaktapur has not resumed even three days after it was stopped following dispute among the parties.

KATHMANDU, May 21: The Election Commission (EC) has directed to resume the vote counting of Pokhara-Lekhnath Metropolis.

POKHARA, May 21: The counting of votes has remained halted since more than 24 hours of Pokhara-Lekhnath Metropolis as the ballot papers with different voting stamp was found on Saturday afternoon.

BHAKTAPUR, May 20: Vote counting in the Changunarayan Municipality, Bhaktapur has been halted until further notice. With this decision taken Saturday, the vote counting centre has been sealed.

CHITWAN , May 20: Vote-count halted since Friday night following row over vote-counting of Ward-9 has not been resumed yet in Bharatpur Metropolitan City.

BIRGUNJ, May 19: Though the people of tarai-Madhes could not take part in the first round of local elections, they are concerned for as well as excited about the poll updates from the hilly districts.

KATHMANDU, May 17: Although concerns are being raised from various quarters in Kathmandu over the snail-paced counting of votes, not many people seem to be aware about the time it took to conclude vote counting in Kathmandu Metropolitan City in the last local election held 20 years ago.

POKHARA, May 17: The delay in vote counting has disappointed the voters who are desperate to see their new representatives assume their offices.

KATHMANDU, May 17: Concerned with the tediously slow vote counting process, the Election Commission (EC) has instructed returning officers to expedite vote counting by involving maximum available human resources and representatives of political parties in all 281 local units where votes were cast on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, May 16: Concerned with the tediously slow vote counting the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday instructed returning officers of all 281 local units to expedite vote counting by involving maximum human resources available in the districts and representatives of political parties.

SURKHET, May 16: Vote counting in Birendranagar Muncipality began at 2 pm, Monday. Hardly 100 votes could be counted by 5 pm. The main reason behind such a delay in vote counting is: the complicated ballot paper and rigidity of all political parties to count the votes at a single location.

KATHMANDU, May 15: Vote counting is underway of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC). However, the counting is underway in slow pace that could delay in the final outcome of the KMC.

KATHMANDU, May 15: Early vote counting shows Nepali Congress has taken a lead in Musikot Municipality Mayoral candidate. NC has secured 1236 while CPN (Maoist) is trailing in second position with 774 votes and UML in third with 396 votes.

GORKHA, May 15: Vote counting has begun in Gorkha Municipality and Bhimsen Rural Municipality of Gorkha district.

KATHMANDU, May 15: Vote counting is set to begin soon in Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Pokhara Metropolitan City  and Bharatpur Metropolitan City.

JUMLA, May 15: The local level elections' vote counting is underway in Chandannath Municipality and the Patarasi, Hima, Kankasundari village councils here in the district.

KATHMANDU, May 14: The counting of the votes of the Lalitpur Metropolitan City will be started after 11 PM on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, May 14: Election Commission (EC) has introduced vote count directive, barring the use of mobile phones inside the counting centers.

KATHMANDU, May 14: As the election hour for voting comes to an end, the ballot boxes are being collected from the polling stations at the counting centers.